Howdie Pong by LDJam user 297980
A pong game where YOU are the paddle.
https://youtu.be/Wb0DiJKJyzk
Controls- -Use your hand to control the paddle on screen to avoid the ball hitting you.
Everyone has played the classic pong game in some point of his/her life. A game where you control a paddle and to avoid the ball hitting your area and reflecting it back to other side of the court. " Howdie Pong AR" is a 3D augumented reality game where you control the paddle using your hand by waving it in front of the camera.
The twist here is that every ten seconds you survive, another ball gets added into the game. To keep playing you will have to keep atleast one ball in the court. The more balls you handle, the higher the score you will get. Try to reflect as many balls as you can to get higher score.
Good Luck!!!!
P.S. The pong bat is controlled by WebCam. A webcam is must for running the game. Make sure that your webcam is on! :)

| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/howdie-pong |
Ratings
| Given | 23🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
very nice concept
Nice to See some unique concepts which are taking gaming industry to next level. That too in a game jam.
Hats off!! Cheers!
Graphics could be better!
It generally plays fine, although sometimes it didn't recognize well when I moved my hand far left. But that might just have been my positioning relative to the webcam.
Thanks to you, I pulled out my dusty 11-year-old webcam again.
Unfortunately, with my 8-year-old computer or my older webcam, the gesture recognition wasn't fast enough to play games normally.
very fun concept :)